Vishnevsky Blockade

History of the blockade

Abraham Vilyevich Vishnevsky is a Soviet and Russian scientist, obstetrician-gynecologist, professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. He was called by many "the grandfather of modern obstetrics." A.V. Vishnevsky was one of those who participated in the development of the concept of maternal and child health in the USSR. For many years now, he has firmly secured the title of founder of post-war pathology in all Soviet and Russian obstetrics. He was born in St. Petersburg into a poor Jewish family of a hereditary dentist. He lost his family in early childhood - first his father, then his mother. The cousin of the academician's future wife was a doctor, and A.V. Vishnevsky did not dare to resist this suggestion. Before entering the Medical Institute of St. Petersburg, he worked for three years as an orderly at his cousin's hospital. In 1929, Vishnevsky graduated from Petrovka and began his work as a graduate student under the guidance of Professor Yuri Vladimirovich Perelman. A year later, the aspiring doctor becomes Yu.V. Perelman’s assistant and begins to engage in academic work. Vishnevsky began his teaching career in Leningrad. Only in 1936, after the arrest of Yu.V. Perelman, was he able to defend himself with academician Vladimir Shabanov, but soon after a successful defense and without any award, as an alien to the ideas of the CPSU (b), the man and his family were deported to Transcaucasia.

The first step into science A few days later, on March 14, 1941, A.V. Vishnevsky filed a petition for permission to return to his homeland. Returning to his homeland, he was invited to become a professor at the Dagestan Medical Institute. This fact suggests that the medical world greatly needed him not only as a talented doctor and business organizer, but also as an authority, because the authority of a professor is his personal abilities and